references to Lancaster County, from 1682 to 1750, noted in the Statutes at Large, the Colonial Records, the First Series of Pennsylvania Archives and the Votes of Assembly, to that date. Prior to the date of the Sesqui Centennial, July 4, 1926, our Society ought to bring to light all of our county's history

distillation of whisky, which in later years required the registra- tion of the stills and was the source of a great amount of Provincial and Federal Revenues, began in Lancaster County. Mombert, in his history of Lancaster County, states that the friendly relations between England and the Colonies would

rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

of investigations and reports in regard to a number of pensioners of wars prior to 1840 for any person or organization, therefore it is not practicable to verify the list of forty four pensioners, sent by you, who resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1840 and inform you for what service they

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

farms, then numerously owned, as the Lancaster County land warrants recorded in Volume 19 of the Second Series of the Pennsylvania Archives show. These cus- tomary roads were most largely found in the German-Swiss set- tlements, for they were the principal rural owners of large farms and in fact the

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

report of the proceedings of June 24 and the Declaration of the Deputies of Pennsylvania in Pro- vincial Conference assembled. Lancaster county had its deputies present. Thus, a note is made here of the event. It is noted (July 3) that Congress resolved that four companies of Germans he raised in